Meet the Contributor: lululemon

Founded in Vancouver BC in 1998, the first lululemon shared its retail space with a yoga studio. We’ve been growing ever since, and our technical yoga clothes and apparel are now at over 100 stores across Canada, the U.S., Australia and Hong Kong.

We make technical athletic apparel for yoga, running, dancing, and most other sweaty pursuits.

All lululemon locations have strong ties to our local communities. We host in-store events ranging from self-defense to goal-setting workshops to free yoga classes led by our community ambassadors.

it’s okay to fail.

Nicole is an educator at one of our stores in Toronto and a very cool chick (we love her blog – check it out!) Here is her story about the pursuit of her biggest, juiciest BHAG: working for Ellen DeGeneres. We’re always taught that if we want to achieve our goals we have to put [...]

from one to many: africa yoga project

Paige Elenson, Executive Director of Africa Yoga Project shares with us what AYP is all about and how you can get involved. My name is Paige Elenson, and I am the Executive Director of a charity I co-founded with Baron Baptiste called Africa Yoga Project.  It sounds like such an important title, when really I am just a [...]

what our SeaWheeze trainers are listening to

Have you ever watched marathoners at the front of the pack whizz by with earbuds in and wondered what they are listening to? We always do – and so with this in mind we asked our three SeaWheeze run trainers Blue Benadum, Chris McClung and Jenn Howard-Brown to share their favourites with you. This playlist [...]

halfway to the moon: wayne levy & the boston marathon!

Whether he knew it or not, Wayne Levy was always a runner. Born in Jamaica, Wayne spent the first 12 years of his life over delivering on his chores; when his mom asked him to pick up some milk, Wayne would sprint to the store and back, handing her the carton practically before she could [...]

how it all unrolled: asia yoga tour

Three cities, six ambassadors, nine yoga classes and five hundred yogis later, Asia Yoga Tour has officially unrolled! We asked one of our AYT ambassadors, Rebecca Pacheco, to relive the tour with us.  Meet Ryan “The Lion” Leier. He’s magical, this guy. No really…in addition to defying gravity, he did magic tricks for us wherever we [...]

a letter to our guests

At lululemon, our most important relationship is with our communities and our guests. We recently learned some information about some product that arrived in our stores and we wanted you to know right away. At the beginning of March, our stores and ecommerce site received some black luon women’s bottoms that didn’t meet our high [...]

meet your SeaWheeze trainers: kerri

We’ve introduced you to the three amazing run ambassadors who will be leading you through your run training for SeaWheeze 2013. Now meet Kerri Kelly, our Official SeaWheeze Yoga Instructor! We love to incorporate yoga into our run training and we’ve built regular practice into the SeaWheeze training program to compliment all those miles on [...]

hey SeaWheezers: Get Sweaty Get Ready is here!

yup, it’s that time again! We’ve all done it: with major excitement, we sign up for a half-marathon…and then two months before the race, we realize that we haven’t started training yet. Eeep! We are launching the TackleBox training program in May – this 10-week program is engineered to help achieve your peak performance at [...]

top 10 things i love about the LA marathon

Runner extrordinaire and lululemon ambassador Blue Benadum is a passionate advocate for the SoCal marathon community. On the eve of the LA Marathon this Sunday, Blue is sharing the top ten reasons why this is one of his favourite races in the world. 10. elevation. What elevation? Exactly! This course is pretty flat, making it [...]

living #thesweatlife at SXSW!

They say everything is bigger in Texas – and we aren’t the kind of people to back down from a challenge, buffet or otherwise. This (along with some Down Dogs mid-conference) is one of the reasons our crew has been living #thesweatlife in their Wunder Unders all week at SXSW! Are you at SXSW this [...]